Posted on 04/15/2015 5:15:12 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
...Some people are hard up and can’t afford to pay their taxes. But others simply choose not to pay. When traditional enforcement strategies, like charging above-market interest rates on the debt, don’t work, the government uses a number of tools to collect these taxes.
But traditional collection methods don’t always work. In a recent study, we used another strategy that got results: publicly shaming tax delinquents. It should be a key part of government efforts to increase the collection of tax debts, and thanks to the Internet and social media, the government has the means to make it even more effective.
We believe that shaming policies are an effective tool and should be part of the effort to make citizens pay their fair share. More effective and fair tax collection will fund the infrastructure, research and education that pave the way for economic growth and opportunity.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Of course we all know what Dem “shaming policies” end up looking like in practice - internet bullying, death threats, violent protest mobs and burned down businesses.
It’s not that they oppose “judging others” as they have tried to say...
it’s that they don’t want people judged by Christian standards,
but judged by their Humanist standards.
“Some people are hard up and can’t afford to pay their taxes....”
Bullsh!t statement at the start. It may be oppresive and burdensome as hell but if you don’t spend like an irresponsible imbecile, you CAN pay your taxes.
Notice that its pretty much only DEMOCRATS that get away with not paying taxes they legally owe?
And the left is trying to “shame” people who legally DON’T OWE taxes, but are “wealthy”.
I heard the stat the other day that the top 1% of wage earners have busted through the 50% of income taxes paid barrier.
I have found that your garden variety liberals get very nervous when you boil down their “charity” and “compassion” to a simple act of THEFT.
They are advocating that the government steal from party A to “give” to party B, so that they, party C, can feel like they’re “good people”.
I pay ALL of my taxes. I don’t encourage anyone to evade their taxes. HOWEVER, the Federal government in the US has become so evil and corrupt, paying my taxes is pretty much the equivalent of me feeding a lion an appetizer right before he devours me.
They routinely take my tax money and spend it with the specific intent to take away my rights, make me pay for things that are morally repugnant to me, put me in a straight-jacket of law and regulation and generally impoverish me.
I love the USA, but I detest those who are trying to wreck our great nation, its heritage and traditions. Unfortunately, that now includes ALL of the Democratic Party, and most of the Republican Party, federal bureaucracy and judicial branch. Our Federal government is no longer “of the people, by the people and for the people”. It has been hijacked by elitist, statist thieves. robbers and murderers.
HEY EVERYONE. IT’S NY SLIMES BLAME REPUBLICAN WEDNESDAY.
Let the Emmanuel Goldstein day begin.
I’ve noticed that they absolutley deny it, just like every other fact that comes their way.
“denial” is a main ingredient of the liberal mind. Brains surely aren’t. :)
l’auteurs....
1.”Ricardo Perez-Truglia is a researcher at Microsoft Research in New England.”
aka, lapdog of a near tax exempt crony capitalist corporation worth billionsx800+. Plunder accumulated via government sanctioned monopolistic and predatory practices that crush innovation and flood market with unstable idiot ware.
SHAME ON WHO?
2.”Ugo Troiano is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Michigan.”
aka carpet dwelling lab rat working for a tax exempt entity with NO real world experience or accountability whatsoever. Grows fatter daily suckling at government nipple churning out nonsense made possible via egregious tuition charged for worthless degrees whose purchase is subsidized by government loans to students who can never pay them back so the taxpayer will have to. Lab rat “works” a few days a week, as few weeks a year, and retires in 20 with 100% pay and free medical.”
SHAME ON WHO?
They can kiss my taxpaying rebel Richard/Robert/Johnson.
But that’s is just my opinion, and I don’t feel strongly about it.
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